Voice recognition device, voice recognition method, and voice recognition program

• US 20080177541A1
• Filed: 09/04/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Satomura, Masashi
• Application Number:
  US11/896,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20080177541A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/251
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context

Abstract

A voice recognition device, a voice recognition method, and a voice recognition program capable of recognizing a user'"'"'s speech accurately even if the user'"'"'s speech is ambiguous. The voice recognition device determines a control content of a control object on the basis of a recognition result of an input voice. The device includes a task type determination processing unit which determines the type of a task indicating the control content on the basis of a given determination input and a voice recognition processing unit which recognizes the input voice with the task of the type determined by the task type determination processing unit as a recognition object.

Claims

1. A voice recognition device which determines a control content of a control object on the basis of a recognition result of an input voice, comprising:

a task type determination processing unit which determines the type of a task indicating the control content on the basis of a given determination input; and

a voice recognition processing unit which recognizes the input voice with the task of the type determined by the task type determination processing unit as a recognition object.

2. A voice recognition device according to claim 1, wherein the given determination input is data indicating a task included in a previous recognition result in the voice recognition processing unit regarding sequentially input voices.

3. A voice recognition device according to claim 1, further comprising a domain type determination processing unit which determines the type of a domain indicating the control object on the basis of the given determination input, wherein the voice recognition processing unit recognizes the input voice with the domain of the type determined by the domain type determination processing unit as a recognition object, in addition to the task of the type determined by the task type determination processing unit.

4. A voice recognition device according to claim 1, having voice recognition data classified into at least the task types for use in recognizing the voice input by the voice recognition processing unit, wherein the voice recognition processing unit recognizes the input voice at least on the basis of the data classified in the task of the type determined by the task type determination processing unit among the voice recognition data.

5. A voice recognition device according to claim 3, having voice recognition data classified into the task and domain types for use in recognizing the voice input by the voice recognition processing unit, wherein the voice recognition processing unit recognizes the input voice on the basis of the data classified in the task of the type determined by the task type determination processing unit and in the domain of the type determined by the domain type determination processing unit among the voice recognition data.

6. A voice recognition device according to claim 4, wherein the voice recognition data includes a language model having at least a probability of a word to be recognized as data.

7. A voice recognition device according to claim 1, further comprising a control processing unit which determines the control content of the control object at least on the basis of the recognition result of the voice recognition processing unit and performs a given control process.

8. A voice recognition device according to claim 7, further comprising a response output processing unit which outputs a response to a user inputting the voice, wherein the control process performed by the control processing unit includes processing of controlling the response to the user to prompt the user to input the voice.

9. A voice recognition device having a microphone to which a voice is input and a computer having an interface circuit for use in accessing data of the voice obtained via the microphone, the voice recognition device determining a control content of a control object on the basis of a recognition result of the voice input to the microphone through arithmetic processing with the computer,

wherein the computer performs:

task type determination processing of determining the type of a task indicating the control content on the basis of a given determination input; and

voice recognition processing of recognizing the input voice with the task of the type determined in the task type determination processing as a recognition object.

10. A voice recognition method of determining a control content of a control object on the basis of a recognition result of an input voice, comprising:

a task type determination step of determining the type of a task indicating the control content on the basis of a given determination input; and

a voice recognition step of recognizing the input voice with the task of the type determined in the task type determination step as a recognition object.

11. A voice recognition program which causes a computer to perform processing of determining a control content of a control object on the basis of a recognition result of an input voice, having a function of causing the computer to perform:

task type determination processing of determining the type of a task indicating the control content on the basis of a given determination input; and

voice recognition processing of recognizing the input voice with the task of the type determined in the task type determination processing as a recognition object.